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COLORPICKER{} -- color picker for use in HTML forms for TWiki applications

• The %COLORPICKER{}% variable is handled by the ColorPickerPlugin.
• Syntax: %COLORPICKER{ name="..." value="..." }%
• Parameters:

  Parameter	Description	Default	Example
  name	Name of input field	(required)	name="text_color"
  value	Initial color value, in hexadecimal notation for the combination of Red, Green, and Blue color values (RGB).	(none)	value="#0000ff"
  size	Size of input field	(browser default)	size="12"
  class	CSS class of input field	(none)	class="twikiInputField"
  Additional parameters can be supplied; they will be added to the HTML input field.

• Example:
  <form action="...">
%COLORPICKER{ name="text_color" size="12" value="#123456" class="twikiInputField" }%
<form>
• Category: ApplicationsAndComponentsVariables, DatabaseAndFormsVariables, EditingAndContentUpdateVariables, FormattingAndRenderingVariables, UIAndVisualizationVariables
• Related: ColorPickerPlugin, TWikiForms (this topic)

COMMENT{ attributes } -- insert an edit box into the topic to easily add comments.

• A %COMMENT% without parameters shows a simple text box.
• A %COMMENT{}% can handle the following parameters:

  Parameter	Description	Default
  type	This is the name of the template to use for this comment. Comment templates are defined in a TWiki template - see customization. If this attribute is not defined, the type is whatever is defined by COMMENTPLUGIN_DEFAULT_TYPE, either in this topic or in your WebPreferences.	"below"
  default	Default text to put into the textarea of the prompt.
  target	Name of the topic to add the comment to	the current topic
  location	Regular expression specifying the comment location in the target topic. Read carefully the CommentPlugin documentation!
  mode	For compatibility with older versions only, synonymous with type
  nonotify	Set to "on" to disable change notification for target topics	"off"
  noform	Set to "on" to disable the automatic form that encloses your comment block - remember to insert <form> tags yourself! See CommentPluginExamples#noform for an example.	"off"
  nopost	Set to "on" to disable insertion of the posted text into the topic.	"off"
  remove	Set to "on" to remove the comment prompt after the first time it is clicked.	"off"
  button	Button label text	"Add comment"
  emailto	Send comment by email. Use comma "," to seperate multiple email addresses. This feature is disabled by default. To enable this feature, please set up "$TWiki::cfg{Plugins}{CommentPlugin}{EmailEnabled} = 1;".

• See CommentPlugin for more information
• Category: ApplicationsAndComponentsVariables, DatabaseAndFormsVariables, EditingAndContentUpdateVariables, WorkflowAndAutomationVariables
• Related: HIDE, TWikiForms (this topic)

DATEPICKER{} -- pop-up calendar to select a date for use in HTML forms

• The %DATEPICKER{}% variable is handled by the DatePickerPlugin.
• Syntax: %DATEPICKER{ name="..." value="..." }%
• Parameters:

  Parameter	Description	Default	Example
  name	Name of input field. φ: No output is shown if the name parameter is missing, but the CSS and Javascript are loaded.	(requiredφ)	name="Start"
  value	Initial date value.	"" (today)	value="2012-12-31"
  format	Format of resulting date value. • %a - abbreviated weekday name • %A - full weekday name • %b - abbreviated month name • %B - full month name • %C - century number • %d - the day of the month (00 ... 31) • %e - the day of the month (0 ... 31) • %H - hour (00 ... 23) • %I - hour (01 ... 12) • %j - day of the year ( 000 ... 366) • %k - hour (0 ... 23) • %l - hour (1 ... 12) • %m - month (01 ... 12) • %M - minute (00 ... 59) • %n - a newline character • %p - "PM" or "AM" • %P - "pm" or "am" • %S - second (00 ... 59) • %s - number of seconds since Epoch (since Jan 01 1970 00:00:00 UTC) • %t - a tab character • %U, %W, %V - the week number. The week 01 is the week that has the Thursday in the current year, which is equivalent to the week that contains the fourth day of January. Weeks start on Monday. • %u - the day of the week (1 ... 7, 1 = MON) • %w - the day of the week (0 ... 6, 0 = SUN) • %y - year without the century (00 ... 99) • %Y - year including the century (ex. 2012) • %% - a literal % character	"%Y-%m-%d"	format="%e %b %Y"
  id	ID of input field, optional.	"id_" + name	id="idStart"
  size	Size of input field, in number of characters.	(calculated as needed)	size="12"
  class	CSS class of input field.	"twikiInputField"	class="dateField"
  Additional HTML input field attributes, such as alt, disabled, maxlength, onblur, onchange, onfocus, readonly, style, tabindex, title

• Example:
  <form action="...">
%DATEPICKER{ name="Start_Date" }%
<form>
• Expands to:
• Category: ApplicationsAndComponentsVariables, DatabaseAndFormsVariables, DateAndTimeVariables, EditingAndContentUpdateVariables, FormattingAndRenderingVariables, UIAndVisualizationVariables
• Related: DatePickerPlugin, TWikiForms (this topic)

EDITFORMFIELD{"fieldname" form=""} -- render an input field specified in a form template topic

• Use this to create HTML forms that update TWikiForms, such as a custom "create new topic" form, or a topic header that allows users to change some form values at the top of the page. A valid form is composed of a start form type, various form fields, a submit type, and an end form type.
• Syntax:
  • %EDITFORMFIELD{"fieldname" form="...Form"}% - create form field defined in a TWiki Form template
  • %EDITFORMFIELD{"fieldname" topic="..."}% - create form field based on a topic that has a TWiki Form & initialize its value
  • %EDITFORMFIELD{"fieldname" type="..."}% - create an HTML input field
• Supported parameters:

  Parameter:	Description:	Default:
  "fieldname"	The name of a TWiki form field or HTML form field.	Required
  form="..."	Name of form template topic, such as "BugForm". Specify topic name or Web.TopicName	Either form or topic is required unless type is specified
  topic="..."	Name of topic containing form, such as "Bug1234". Specify topic name or Web.TopicName
  format="..."	Format string. Supported variables: • $inputfield - rendered form input field. • $title - raw field name (includes space and other special characters). • $name - field name (sanitized title). • $size - size of field or selector. • $value - initial value, or select options. • $tooltip - tooltip message. • $attributes - type attributes, such as H for hidden, M for mandatory. • $extra - extra information, such as * for mandatory field. See details in TWikiForms#FormFieldTypes. This parameter is ignored if type="..." is specified.	"$inputfield"
  value="..."	Initial value of input field. If omitted and if topic="..." is specified, the value is taken from the named form field.	""
  type="start"	Special case: Start an HTML form. Parameters: "form" type="start" action="save" topic="..." method="" • action: Specify a TWiki script (view, edit, save, ...), or a full action URL, default "view". • topic: Specify topic name or Web.TopicName, default current topic; ignored if full action URL is provided. • method: HTML form action method, default "post" for save action, else "get".	""
  type="end"	Special case: End an HTML form. Parameters: "form" type="end"	""
  type="..."	Special case: Create an input field regardless of the type defined in the TWikiForm. Used mainly for hidden fields and submit button. The nameless parameter is the field name. Supported types: • "fieldname" type="hidden" value="..." - hidden input field. • "fieldname" type="submit" value="..." - submit button, value is button label. • "fieldname" type="button" value="..." onclick="..." - regular button, value is button label. • "fieldname" type="text" value="..." size="80" - text input field. • "fieldname" type="checkbox" value="..." text="..." - checkbox, text is display text. • "fieldname" type="radio" value="..." text="..." - radio button, text is display text. • In addition, any valid XHML and HTML5 input type is supported, such as type="date", type="file", type="image". Additional type-specific parameters can be supplied, such as alt="", checked="checked", class="", max="", min="", src="", style="", width="". Consult HTML documentation.	""

• Example: %EDITFORMFIELD{ "ReleaseType" form="PackageForm" value="Beta-1" }%
• Example: Custom form in an included header to update some values of the base topic
  %EDITFORMFIELD{ "form" type="start" action="save" topic="%BASEWEB%.%BASETOPIC%" method="post" }%
| Priority: | %EDITFORMFIELD{ "Priority" topic="%BASETOPIC%" }% |
| Status:   | %EDITFORMFIELD{ "Status"   topic="%BASETOPIC%" }% |
|  | %EDITFORMFIELD{ "form" type="submit" value="Update" }% |
%EDITFORMFIELD{ "Updated" type="hidden" value="%SERVERTIME{$year-$mo-$day}%" }%
%EDITFORMFIELD{ "form" type="end" }%
• Category: DatabaseAndFormsVariables, DevelopmentVariables, EditingAndContentUpdateVariables
• Related: EDITTABLE, FORMFIELD, METASEARCH, SEARCH, FormattedSearch, QuerySearch, SearchHelp, TWikiForms, TWikiScripts (this topic)

EDITTABLE{ attributes } -- edit TWiki tables using edit fields and other input fields

• The %EDITTABLE{}% variable is handled by the EditTablePlugin
• Syntax: %EDITTABLE{ attributes }%

• Supported attributes:

  Attribute	Comment	Default
  header	Specify the header format of a new table like "|*Food*|*Drink*|". Useful to start a table with only a button	(no header)
  format	The format of one column when editing the table. A cell can be a text input field, or any of these edit field types: • Text input field (1 line):   | text, <size>, <initial value> | • Textarea input field:   | textarea, <rows>x<columns>, <initial value> | • Drop down box:   | select, <size>, <option 1>, <option 2>, etc* |   * only one item can be selected • Radio buttons:   | radio, <size*>, <option 1>, <option 2>, etc |   * size indicates the number of buttons per line in edit mode • Checkboxes:   | checkbox, <size*>, <option 1>, <option 2>, etc |   * size indicates the number of checkboxes per line in edit mode • Fixed label:   | label, 0, <label text> | • Row number:   | row, <offset> | • Date:   | date, <size>, <initial value>, <DHTML date format*> |   * see Date Field Type	"text, 16" for all cells
  changerows	Rows can be added and removed if "on" Rows can be added but not removed if "add" Rows cannot be added or removed if "off"	CHANGEROWS plugin setting
  quietsave	Quiet Save button is shown if "on", hidden if "off"	QUIETSAVE plugin setting
  include	Other topic defining the EDITTABLE parameters. The first %EDITTABLE% in the topic is used. This is useful if you have many topics with the same table format and you want to update the format in one place.	(none)
  helptopic	Topic name containing help text shown below the table when editing a table. The %STARTINCLUDE% and %STOPINCLUDE% variables can be used in the topic to specify what is shown.	(no help text)
  headerislabel	Table header cells are read-only (labels) if "on"; header cells can be edited if "off" or "0"	"on"
  editbutton	Set edit button text, e.g. "Edit this table"; set button image with alt text, e.g. "Edit table, %PUBURL%/%SYSTEMWEB%/TWikiDocGraphics/edittopic.gif"; hide edit button at the end of the table with "hide" (Note: Button is automatically hidden if an edit button is present in a cell)	EDITBUTTON plugin setting
  buttonrow	Set to top to put the edit buttons above the table.	bottom
  javascriptinterface	Use javascript to directly move and delete row without page refresh. Enable with "on", disable with "off".	JAVASCRIPTINTERFACE plugin setting
  redirectto	Set up a return page after saving changes. e.g By setting redirectto="%BASEPAGE%", you can return to base page if your editable table is included by another page.	(none)

• Example:
  %EDITTABLE{ format="| text, 20 | select, 1, one, two, three |" changerows="on" }%
| *Name* | *Type* |
| Foo | two |
• Category: DatabaseAndFormsVariables, EditingAndContentUpdateVariables, TablesAndSpreadsheetsVariables
• Related: See EditTablePlugin for more details (this topic)

FORMFIELD{"fieldname"} -- renders a field in the form attached to some topic

• Syntax: %FORMFIELD{"fieldname"}%
• Supported parameters:

  Parameter:	Description:	Default:
  "fieldname"	The name of a TWiki form field	required
  topic="..."	Topic where form data is located. May be of the form Web.TopicName	Current topic
  rev="..."	Get the form field value from the specified topic revision, range "1" to top revision of topic. "0" is equivalent to the top revision	The rev URL parameter value if present, otherwise the top revision
  format="..."	Format string. Supported variables: • $value - form field value • $value(20, -<br />) - value hyphenated every 20 characters using separator -<br /> • $value(30, ...) - value shortened to 30 characters • $length - length of value (can be used to test if value is set) • $title - raw field name (includes space and other special characters) • $name - field name (sanitized title) • $attributes - form field attributes • $formtopic - name of form definition topic	"$value"
  default="..."	Text shown when no value is defined for the field	""
  alttext="..."	Text shown when field is not found in the form	""
  newline="$br"	Convert newlines in textarea to other delimiters. Variable $br expands to <br /> tag, and $n to a newline. Other text is encoded based on encode parameter.	no conversion
  encode="html"	Encode special characters into HTML entities. If a FORMFIELD is passed into an HTML form field it should be encoded as "html". Additional encodings available: encode="quote", encode="moderate", encode="safe", encode="entity" and encode="url". See ENCODE for details.	"" (no encoding)

• Example: %FORMFIELD{"ProjectName" topic="Projects.SushiProject" default="(not set)" alttext="ProjectName field not found"}%
• Example: <input type="text" name="Address" value="%FORMFIELD{ "Address" encode="html" }%" />
  • Note: It is easier to use EDITFORMFIELD for custom input fields
• Category: DatabaseAndFormsVariables, DevelopmentVariables
• Related: EDITFORMFIELD, ENCODE, ENTITY, META, METASEARCH, SEARCH, FormattedSearch, QuerySearch, SearchHelp (this topic)

SEARCH{"text"} -- search content

• Inline search, shows a search result embedded in a topic
• Syntax: %SEARCH{"text" ...}%
• Supported parameters:

  Parameter:	Description:	Default:
  "text"	Search term. Is a keyword search, literal search, regular expression search, or query, depending on the type parameter. SearchHelp has more	required
  search="text"	(Alternative to above)	N/A
  web="Name" web="Main, Know" web="all"	Comma-separated list of webs to search. You can specifically exclude webs from an all search using a minus sign - for example, web="all,-Secretweb". The special word all means all webs that do not have the NOSEARCHALL variable set to on in their WebPreferences. Note that TWikiAccessControls are respected when searching webs; it is much better to use them than NOSEARCHALL.	Current web
  topic="WebPreferences" topic="*Bug"	Limit search to topics: A topic, a topic with asterisk wildcards, or a list of topics separated by comma. Note this is a list of topic names and must not include web names.	All topics in a web
  excludetopic="Web*" excludetopic="WebHome, WebChanges"	Exclude topics from search: A topic, a topic with asterisk wildcards, or a list of topics separated by comma. Note this is a list of topic names and must not include web names.	None
  scope="topic" scope="text" scope="all"	Search topic name (title); the text (body) of topic; or all (title and body)	"text"
  type="keyword" type="word" type="literal" type="regex" type="query"	Control how the search is performed when scope="text" or scope="all" keyword: use Google-like controls as in soap "web service" -shampoo; searches word parts: using the example, topics with "soapsuds" will be found as well, but topics with "shampoos" will be excluded word: identical to keyword but searches whole words: topics with "soapsuds" will not be found, and topics with "shampoos" will not be excluded literal: search for the exact string, like web service regex: use a RegularExpression search like soap;web service;!shampoo; to search on whole words use \bsoap\b query: query search of form fields and other meta-data, like (Firstname='Emma' OR Firstname='John') AND Lastname='Peel'	%SEARCHVAR- DEFAULTTYPE% preferences setting (literal)
  sort="topic" sort="created" sort="modified" sort="editby" sort="parent" sort=  "formfield(name)"	Sort the results of search by the topic names, topic creation time, last modified time, last editor, parent topic name, or named field of TWikiForms. The sorting is done web by web; if you want to sort across webs, create a formatted table and sort it with TablePlugin's initsort. Note that dates are sorted most recent date last (i.e at the bottom of the table). Legacy order parameter is used in case sort is not specified.	Sort by topic name
  start="0" start="20"	Specify the number of results to skip. This is done after sorting if sort parameter is specified. This is intended for pagination of results. If this parameter is specified, %NTOPICS% in the search template is replaced with the number of topics matched. Without this parameter, %NTOPICS% doesn't exceed the limit value.	No results skipped
  limit="all" limit="16"	Limit the number of results returned. This is done after sorting if sort parameter is specified. This parameter specifing the number of results remains the same in the presense of the start parameter. Assuming there are more than 20 results matched, start="10" limit="10" results in 11th to 20th results are returned	All results
  date="..."	limits the results to those pages with latest edit time in the given time interval.	All results
  createdate="..."	similar to date but it's about create time instead of last edit. You can specify both date and createdate, in which case topics matching both conditions are shown.	All results
  reverse="on"	Reverse the direction of the search	Ascending search
  casesensitive="on"	Case sensitive search	Ignore case
  bookview="on"	BookView search, e.g. show complete topic text	Show topic summary
  nonoise="on"	Shorthand for nosummary="on" nosearch="on" nototal="on" zeroresults="off" noheader="on" noempty="on"	Off
  nosummary="on"	Show topic title only	Show topic summary
  nosearch="on"	Suppress search string	Show search string
  noheader="on"	Suppress default search header Topics: Changed: By: , unless a header is explicitly specified	Show default search header, unless search is inline and a format is specified (Cairo compatibility)
  nototal="on"	Do not show number of topics found	Show number
  zeroresults="off"	Suppress all output if there are no hits	zeroresults="on", displays: "Number of topics: 0"
  noempty="on"	Suppress results for webs that have no hits.	Show webs with no hits
  headingoffset="2"	Adjust the level of headings in text of topics found, taking effect in $text and $pattern() of a FormattedSearch. A "2" or "+2" increases the level by two, e.g. a ---+ H1 turns into a ---+++ H3. Positive and negative values are supported. Adjusted min and max levels are H1 and H6, respectively.	no adjustment
  header="..." format="..." footer="..."	Custom format results. See FormattedSearch for usage, variables & examples	Results in table
  default="..."	Default message if there are no hits in a web. See FormattedSearch for usage, variables & examples	No output
  expandvariables="on"	Expand variables before applying a FormattedSearch on a search hit. Useful to show the expanded text, e.g. to show the result of a SpreadSheetPlugin %CALC{}% instead of the formula	Raw text
  multiple="on"	Multiple hits per topic. Each hit can be formatted. The last token is used in case of a regular expression ";" and search	Only one hit per topic
  nofinalnewline="on"	If on, the search variable does not end in a line by itself. Any text continuing immediately after the search variable on the same line will be rendered as part of the table generated by the search, if appropriate.	off
  recurse="on"	Recurse into subwebs, if subwebs are enabled.	off
  separator=", "	Line separator between search hits	"$n" (Newline)
  newline="%BR%"	Line separator within a search hit. Useful if you want to put multi-line content into a table cell, for example if the format="" parameter contains a $pattern() that captures more than one line, or contains a $formfield() that returns a multi-line textfield.	"$n" (Newline)
  encode="html"	Encode special characters into HTML entities. If a FORMFIELD is passed into an HTML form field it should be encoded as "html". Additional encodings available: encode="quote", encode="moderate", encode="safe", encode="entity" and encode="url". See ENCODE for details.	no encoding

• Example: %SEARCH{"wiki" web="Main" scope="topic"}%
• Example with format: %SEARCH{"FAQ" scope="topic" nosearch="on" nototal="on" header="| *Topic: * | *Summary: * |" format="| $topic | $summary |"}% (displays results in a table with header - details)
• Hint: If the TWiki:Plugins.TablePlugin is installed, you may set a %TABLE{}% variable just before the %SEARCH{}% to alter the output of a search. Example: %TABLE{ tablewidth="90%" }%
• Category: DevelopmentVariables, DatabaseAndFormsVariables, ExportAndPublishingVariables, SearchingAndListingVariables
• Related: EDITFORMFIELD, FORMFIELD, META, METASEARCH, TOPICLIST, WEBLIST, FormattedSearch, SearchResultsPagination, QuerySearch, SearchHelp, SearchPatternCookbook, RegularExpression (this topic)

Total: 7 variables

Related Topics: TWikiVariables, TWikiVariablesSearch, TWikiVariablesQuickStart